French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830
Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.
black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)
you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade
then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)
and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids
so yeah
viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie
Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.
Why?
Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.
Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.
Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.
We KNOW this.
There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.
On a lighter note, someone mentioned Pan visibility?
Space Mermaid Summoner Starlight is here!
It is important to value yourself as a member of a group.
It is important to value yourself as an individual.
It is also important to value and evaluate others as individuals.
If we remember this, perhaps we can come to love each other better.
Mondays can be rough, but Monday blues don’t stand a chance against one of these adorable spotted seal cushions from Felissimo (previously featured here). Each soft, smiling seal is actually a large plush case meant for storing winter blankets, then comes the hugging:
Felissimo also created a much smaller (but equally soft and cute) seal pup pouch that makes a perfect pillow:
So looking through old asks and I got to thinking about Wocky and how her story went and how that would affect a Wocky suddenly thrown into Creation.
Ignoring the whole Gnome thing…
She would be quite the excitable one at first, a land full of new adventure with new stories to tell and heroes being born every day. A land where it’s been implied that Primal Music is all that’s left of what music truly was, a blessing she could seek to return to the world.
And even still,
With Wocky having a powerful destiny and an odd luck with inspiring others to follow her, she could be seen as an important asset to any side of the great and eternal War that Creation is wrapped in. But what’s important here, is that Shadow Wocky is actually just Malcanthet.
Why is this important?
Well a) there’s never been an instance where the two have existed at the same time; not really, not in a way where they could interact. b) based on an old ask I did receive regarding Fal and his ‘quest’ to overtake and somehow replace the Incarna, point a is strangely important.
If such a thing were to happen, Wocky would still feel bound to stop Fal, even if she disagreed with the way the Incarna were (not) running Creation. Through means such as the Ebon Dragon, Wocky might meet her shadow and they could legitimately agree on the task of taking down Fal; albeit for differing reasons.
They key difference then becomes the fact that Malcanthet would stab Wocky in the back by sabotaging her and allowing Fal to succeed in taking out the Incarna, only to facilitate the release of the Yozi from their prison.
It would be a mess.
But it might lead to a Wocky vs Adorjan showdown which I would pay to see.
Re-reading an old drabble that @greensunprincess wrote for me about V’neef Yuri being all nervous about being married to Marian. The following ‘accounts’ of Marian’s deeds as a ‘war-hero’ tickle me:
“…she saved the Roseblack!” – If you mean she stumbled around the mansion of a Trickster God while searching for a missing Roseblack and happened upon her by accident then sure. Or if you mean the whole “Tentera tried to murder Ejava and Ellodie” well…okay I’ll grant you that one, Marian helped.
“She fought a huge war and led squads of specialists!” – She fought in the war and she commanded a single squad of dragonbloods exactly once; though she did help with a lot of initial war planning.
“(She) punched a deathknight’s head off with one blow” – First of all, it was a Solar. Second of all, it took several punches to work up to that point. ((Third of all, she feels bad about it))
Also:
Yuri: “But… What if I’m not pretty enough? What if she thinks I’m ugly?” V’neef: “Then she is the stupidest girl in the whole empire! Which I already know she is not.”
Wocky because canon shipping. Angel because ROUNGSONA. Marian because hot damn. Hope; I don’t want to date her I just want to go to a bar and get into bar fights. Sherwood, because every dating game needs competition. (And I want to punch his smug face sometimes.)
Well Marian was going to be included regardless (She just wins “Most Datable OC”)
A Quiet Respite 